Opes to the rich at as easy rate
As the needle’s eye takes a camel in! 260
The Mayor sent East, West, North, and South,
To offer the Piper by word of mouth,
Wherever it was men’s lot to find him,
Silver and gold to his heart’s content,
If he’d only return the way he went, 265
And bring the children behind him.
But when they saw ’twas a lost endeavour,
And Piper and dancers were gone for ever,